Sir John Hunt KCB
Cabinet Office
Whitehall
London SW1
SECRET
193
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London S.W.1
19 November 1974
Dear John,
дока,
DEFENCE REVIEW:
HONG KONG
1. At our meeting on 15 November we discussed a possible
form of words for the Ministerial statement on 3 December
about the application of the Defence Review to Hong Kong.
2. You will remember that the passage which was
table and which had the support of the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office read as follows:
on the
"We shall of course maintain our obligations towards
There will
our remaining Dependent Territories.
however be consultation with the Hong Kong
Government about the level of forces appropriate in
the present circumstances and about how the cost of
these forces should be divided between us and them
when the present cost-sharing agreement runs out in
1976."
3. You expressed the view however that this might not be
sufficiently specific to meet Ministerial needs, and it
was suggested that something on the following lines might
be used instead:
"We shall, of course, maintain our obligations
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